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A medicated empire : the pharmaceutical industry and modern Japan / Timothy M. Yang.
- Format:
- Book
- Author/Creator:
- Yang, Timothy M., 1981- author.
- Series:
- Studies of the Weatherhead East Asian Institute, Columbia University
- Language:
- English
- Subjects (All):
- Hoshi Pharmaceuticals--History.
- Hoshi Pharmaceuticals.
- Pharmaceutical industry--Japan--History--20th century.
- Pharmaceutical industry.
- History.
- Japan.
- Genre:
- History.
- Physical Description:
- xvi, 335 pages : illustrations ; 24 cm.
- Place of Publication:
- Ithaca : Cornell University Press, 2021.
- Summary:
- "This book is a business history of a transnational Japanese pharmaceutical company in the early twentieth century, Hoshi Pharmaceuticals, and a commodity history of its involvement in opium, quinine, and consumer medicines in both Japan and its expanding empire"-- Provided by publisher.
- Contents:
- Machine generated contents note: pt. I THE DRUG INDUSTRY, ENTREPRENEURSHIP, AND THE STATE
- 1. A Strategic Industry
- 2. The Supposed Self-Made Man and His Company
- pt. II MARKETING MEDICINES AND MEDICINAL INFRASTRUCTURES
- 3. Marketing a Culture of Self-Medication
- 4. Medicinal Infrastructures and Medical Missionaries
- pt. III THE OPIUM EMPIRE
- 5. The Scandal of Opium (and the Colonial Exception)
- 6. Things Fall Apart
- pt. IV SCIENCE, SELF-SUFFICIENCY, AND WARTIME MOBILIZATION
- 7. Selling the Science of Quinine Self-Sufficiency
- 8. War and Drugs.
- Notes:
- Includes bibliographical references and index.
- Local Notes:
- Acquired for the Penn Libraries with assistance from the Alumni and Friends Memorial Book Fund.
- Other Format:
- Online version: Yang, Timothy M., 1981- A medicated empire.
- ISBN:
- 9781501756245
- 1501756249
- OCLC:
- 1202730807
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